Some of you may have noticed the cyber silence here lately. It has not been intentional. Rather, internet has been a bit spotty lately. Another way to say this is that I am in a life and death struggle with a certain internet service provider who shall (for the moment) remain nameless. I think I know who is more likely to die. Yet another way to say this is that I have been given the opportunity lately to grow both in my patience and my facility speaking Spanish over the phone about semi-technical issues. My Spanish may be improving but my mood is not. Yet, driving today with a friend we were discussing early missionaries and the challenges that they faced. I have a hard time imagining Adoniram Judson or even the relatively more recent Jim Eliot grousing about their internet being down.
Digital deficiencies are not our only news, however. More importantly, we are happy to report that today, with the generous loan of a cargo van and the even more generous loan of strong backs we were able to fetch our belongings from their point of delivery and transfer them to our home. We are now surrounded by piles of partially unpacked boxes. It is wonderful! It is not unlike Christmas as we discover all our things anew.*
That Christmas feeling will just keep coming in the weeks ahead as we have found several furniture and home furnishings to purchase from people leaving the country. This is bittersweet as we will miss them in spite of only knowing them for awhile but it is a part of the circle of life and ministry here. We are happy to be of a type of service to them by purchasing their belongings, relieving them of at least one detail.
Thank you for your prayers and support. We miss many but are eagerly setting the plow a little deeper in our ministry here.
*Special thanks to WGO (World Gospel Outreach) for the use of the van and to His Eyes ministry for the space in their shipping container.
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